Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies
Edited by Mary T. Christel and Scott Sullivan
Becoming literate in the use of digital strategies is essential to reaching students in today's ELA classrooms. Our world is quickly becoming one in which students are consumers and producers of media texts created for a variety of purposes, and we can use those purposes to our ends in the classroom. We see Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies as the start of a longer conversation that will contribute to the evolution of the ELA classroom over time. Lessons are designed to be a place to start, a marker on the road, a way for you to begin your exploration of digital literacies in your classroom. We invite you to use the resources provided here, modify them, create your own, and contribute to the discussion.
Read the table of contents, introduction, and a sample chapter.
Part I: Web Basics: Getting Started
1.1 Wikipedia Survey
1.2 Wikipedia Project: Understanding the Critical Process
1.3 Student Reflection
1.4 Grading Rubric for Wikipedia Project
2.1 Prewriting Activity for Reflective Essay
3.1 Evaluation Rubric
3.2 Student Self-Evaluation
4.1 Student Sample
4.2 Student Sample
4.3 Student Sample
4.4 Creating Digital InfoComics
5.1 Poster Requirements and Student Reflection
6.1 Media Diet Debrief
Ch. 6, Link 1 -- Google Survey Setup
Ch. 6, Link 2 -- How to Share the Survey
Ch. 6, Link 3 -- How to Share the Survey Results
7.1 Final Portfolios: Assembling Your Portfolio
7.2 Learning from Your Final Portfolio: Student Reflection
Part II: A Classroom without Walls: Collaborating with Web-Based Applications
8.1 Kennedy's Krib
8.2 Online Posting Rubric
9.1 The Fifth Child Discussion Board Contract
9.2 Sample Student Responses
9.3 Sample Discussion Board Evaluation Sheets
10.1 Crash Permission Slip
10.2 "Isms" Activity and Reflection
11.1 Document Trail
11.2 Peer Assessment
12.1 Creating an Online Reflection Survey Using Google Docs Form Feature
13.1 Resources for Learning about Blogs and Creating Your Own
Part III: The 21st Century Essay: Researching, Collaborating, and Composing
14.1 Supplemental Directions and Student Samples
15.1 Wiki Project Grading Rubrics
16.1 Wordles of Excerpts from the Three Scaffold Scenes in The Scarlet Letter
17.1 Let's Build a Rubric on Google Docs!
18.1 Hypermedia Writing Overview
18.2 Facebook Social Group Analysis
19.1 Digital Photo Essay
Part IV: Interactive Literature Study: The Paperback vs. the Computer Screen
20.1 Macbeth iMovie Assignment
20.2 Rubric for Macbeth Movie Trailer
20.3 Solve the Mystery
20.4 Essay: Have You Solved the Mystery?
21.1 Book Review Podcast Rubric
21.2 ISP Podcast Rubric
22.1 Character Study Activity
22.2 Instructions for Creating a Ning
23.1 Jane Austen Style Features
23.2 Historical Tweet Samples
24.1 Charting the Meaning behind Motifs
24.2 Symbolic Analysis Assignment Sheet
25.1 Model Social Networking Profile
25.2 Macbethbook Rubric
26.1 Storyboard Form
26.2 Chaucerian Pilgrimage Rubric